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4 Jun 2013

I am sick. I am sorry but there will be no blog post today :-(

Sick as a small hospital :-(

I have had one flu, after another cold, after another infection, after another dose. I am as sick as a small hospital. I awoke today to the joys of a chest- and sinus- infection and a real, genuine, flu - together with temperature, sweats, exhaustion. My blood pressure has tanked and I haven't managed to get past one dose before I get another - it's going on for months now, and I'm pretty fed up of it. I haven't been this run down in - oh I don't know when ever.

I wanted to say apologies in as many languages as I could, then I thought, sod it, my head is splitting, I'll let Google Translate do it for me. I can't attest to the accuracy of most of these - I haven't even proofed the ones I can read/write/speak in... but here goes:

English

I am sick. I am sorry but there will be no blog post today :-(

I encourage you to take two minutes to look down through the remainder of these, and remind yourself what a beautiful, culturally, socially and linguistically diverse world we live in. Look on some of these beautiful languages and their scripts...

I'm very grateful that I have readers all over the world, and I like that I can speak a (very very tiny) minority of (some of) these languages. I'm extremely fortunate to have visited some of the countries where these languages are spoken. Much as I might prefer to flex my creative muscles in a more full-time capacity, I enjoy also working in a multi-national company who prides itself on the importance of communication, and I am grateful for the opportunities it has afforded me (in a very short space of time) to get to know many different people of differing races and backgrounds.

Communication is everything. A hug, a phrase, a touch, a word in someone else's language, knowing when to listen and when to be there, and when to back the hell off, can mean the world. I'm back from a trip around my tiny part of the world, catching up with some of my friends and family where, despite my lack of much voice, and despite feeling like death warmed over, despite sleeping in the car between each visit ;-) I communicated with, caught up with, some wonderful people.

Anyhow, I need some down-time. I'm trying to keep up with work, as well as blogging, as well as make-overs and bridals, and I just need a break, so I am taking at least today off, maybe tomorrow too - but don't go anywhere! I'll be back! Just bear with me for a day or two while I try to give my system a re-boot. I'll re-post some older posts for newer readers. Older readers, please give me your patience :-)

With thanks to everyone at Google and anyone who works on their Translate tool - it gets a lot wrong, but with peer reviewing, it learns and corrects and is an amazing tool for helping to communicate in different languages!